What's the best chase scene in a movie?

No, no, no!

The first T-1000/John Connor chase from the begining of Terminator 2. The one that starts in the mall, ends in the LA flood control canals with the big rig and the bikes.

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My (qualified) votes:

Coolest chase: Bullit. I love the atmosphere leading up to the chase. The way the guy puts on his driving gloves and fastens his racing harness. The music really adds to the atmosphere, and the cars are the coolest as well (Mustang and Charger IIRC).

Most exciting race: Ronin. More than one good chase scene in this movie. The only thing I never understood was how the BMW driver managed to constantly flash her lights at the same time as weaving through oncoming traffic at 70mph?

Most fun chase: Blues Brothers. The chase through the mall is very funny, and the final chase scene sets a record for cars smashed up in making a film.

I’d cast my vote for the Blues Brothers too. In the documentary on the DVD, they explain how real all the chases were. It’s unlikely they would ever be able to film a movie like this again. First, the mall chase was completely real. They filmed it at a mall in Wisconsin that was scheduled to be demolished. Second, the Chicago chase scenes were real. John Landis even ordered some scenes reshot with pedestrians on the sidewalks so people wouldn’t think he just sped up the film. The city of Chicago was more or less shut down in parts so they could film this (it was a Sunday morning). I doubt anyone would ever get that permission again.

The Italian Job with the Mini Cooper’s escaping through Turin.

The Hall of Fame will bring back memories.

Point Blank, a thoroughly mediocre movie, has a great foot chase with Keanu Reeves trying to chase down a bank robber on foot.

The Enforcer: Dirty Harry chasing down a suspect on foot.

Run, Lola, Run is more of a race against time, but does the best job of any movie I’ve seen at capturing the sensation of a person running.

The boat chase in Live and Let Die is the greatest boat chase ever filmed.

Police Story 3: Supercop features one inventive chase scene after another, climaxing with a series of chases on foot, in cars, on motorcycle and finally a train.

What, nobody has seen Duel? Actually, it is not even close to the best chase scene, but it lasts for the whole movie!

Playing God. " I went to considerable expense to set up this car chase!" It’s the only time I’ve ever seen three car monty :smiley:

The stolen buses in Red Heat.
The combine/Trans Am chase in The Hunter.
The Chicago El sequence, also in The Hunter.
The car/motorcycle chase in The Principal.
The motorcycle/ski chase in For Your Eyes Only.

If only someone would put the Saab vs. three giant Finnish snowplows (similar example here) from Icebreaker on the screen…

I agree with What’s up, Doc – that’s the one I gave when we had this same thread just a few weeks ago (I thought someone had simply revived it).

The “bum” is an immigrant worker. Nobody understands what’s he’s saying, because he doesn’t speak English, so the Police don’t realize that Joe has switched trucks until the sergeant fortuitiously happens to understand the guy, because his father is the same nationality. Just for the record, the language the hobo is babbling is Polish. I know that because that’s my old man’s lingo.

I know it’s fashionable for Bond fans to hate everything about A View to a Kill, but I loved the fire engine chase.

I want to demonstrate my super-sophisticated, uber-urbane humor, and nominate the chase scene in The Pink Panther, involving people dressed in gorilla suits and zebra costumes. haw haw haw!

Daniel

May I suggest www.bmwfilms.com for some good car chases (and some commercials worth watching.)

Ronin, since I saw it I fell in love with the Audi S8. T-Rex vs. Jeep in Jurassic park was cool too.

A superb boat chase, IMHO better than the one in Live and Let Die was in the 1972 (I think) film, Puppet on a Chain.

Based on the Alistair Maclean novel, the speed boat chase was through the canals of Amsterdam. Amazing to watch.

How about the mining cars in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? I actually like the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark with Indy chasing the truck first on horseback, then the staff car, finally dragging behind/underneath slightly better.

Does the rolling boulder vs Indy count as a chase?

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You gotta love a 2 ton sedan which will blow a Porsche off the road (0-60 in 4,8 secs). I’ve driven one. I want one.
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Why Porsche built the Cayenne perhaps :wink:

Mad Max was just mad basically. The way in which Max dusts the pyscho through sheer bloody mindedness is the best way to end a chase ever.
Bullit was fantastic not just for the setting or the [drool]cars[/drool] but the fact that they were really thrown about the place with Steve McQueen actually doing the driving!
Robbery While we’re talking about Steve McQueen, Robbery is the best British car chase ever, set in sixties London and based on the Great Train Robbery IIRC, its chase features two Jaguars being thrown around the narrow streets before ending with the criminals trying to mow down a school crossing. It impressed McQueen so much he got the films director to work on Bullit.
Blues Brothers is tops for the sheer volume of law enforcement officials involved and the massice amounts of destruction caused :slight_smile:

To Live and Die in LA
Bullit
French Connection
Ronin
Not a great movie but a good chase: recent Gone in 60 Seconds

The Marx Brothers’ Go West (where they tear up the train).

The car chase in The Bank Dick was pretty damn funny.